Try installing using "text expert" in the boot
flags, bypassing the X installation program.
mike
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Williams [mailto:bob@bob.usuhs.mil]
> Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 11:06 AM
> To: axp-list@redhat.com
> Subject: Re: RedHat 6.2beta install fails
>
>
> Christian Iseli wrote:
>
> > bob@bob.usuhs.mil said:
> > > After entering the nfs server address (cweblog.usuhs.mil)
> and path (/
> > > home/ftp/pub/alpha):
> >
> > I remember seeing the same thing long ago, after I
> downloaded files by FTP do
> > some partition and exported it by NFS. FTP will not
> preserve the execution
> > bit on files. Check that binary executable files in
> .../RedHat/instimage/...
> > have the execute permission bit set.
>
> I downloaded 6.2beta from metalab using the automatic tar mode.
> Permissions are supposed to be preserved... At any rate,
> this was the problem. .../instimage/lib/*, .../instimage/etc/gtk/*,
> and .../instimage/usr/* files have no execute permissions.
>
> I fixed this problem with:
> find instimage -type f -exec chmod +x "{}" ";"
>
> and now I get a little farther with the nfs install,
> but end up at
> __________________
>
> Probing for mouse type...
> starting /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA
> __________________
>
> The system freezes at this point
> when I am using a tulip Netgear FA310TX
> with the digital 21140-AF chip,
> which has been freezing my system running
> RedHat 6.1. (So the tulip driver problem,
> at least with these Netgear cards, is still an issue,
> even with kernel-2.2.15.) When I use a 3C503,
> the nfs install gets past this point, to where
> it looks like X might come up.
> The screen blanks, but nothing else happens.
> The ftp install still fails, now by
> doing nothing after entry of the ftp server
> address.
>
>
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